Abstract: A hand tool includes a first part and a second part which is pivotably connected to the first part. The first part has a first jaw. An assistance member is connected to the first part and has a second jaw connected there. The assistance member has an adjustment screw, the second jaw is movable by rotating the adjustment screw. The user uses the first and second parts as the conventional pliers. A locking member is located in the positioning hole of the first part and can lock the relative position of the first and second parts. The second jaw is then adjusted relative to the first jaw by rotating the adjustment screw to be functioned as an adjustment wrench.

Abstract: An improved arts and crafts tool designed to loop and cut wire in a single fluid motion at any desired location along the length of the wire. The tool comprises a pair of arms each arm terminating in a soft-cover handle adapted to be gripped by a user. The upper portions of the arms have looping and cutting members for looping and cutting wire at a desired length. Disposed within one of the cutting members is an ejection aperture which harmlessly directs cut sections of waste wire away from a user and enables the tool to cut sections of wires at any desirable point.

Abstract: A multi-purpose tool includes a tool handle and any combination of a bottle opener, a corkscrew, a zester, a lemon/lime peeler, a cutting blade and a wine bottle opener provided on the tool handle.

Abstract: A combination pipe cutter and can lid opener comprising a means for cutting and a means for opening a can having a lid. The combination pipe cutter and can lid opener comprises two handles, one having a holder to hold a pipe and the other having a blade, wherein the blade is utilized to cut the pipe in the holder. The insides of the handles comprise semicircular openings having gripping teeth for opening the lid of a container. To open the lid of the container, the semicircular cutouts of the first handle and second handle are positioned around the perimeter of the lid, wherein the gripping teeth cooperatively engage the lid thereby opening the container by turning the combination pipe cutter and can lid opener.

Abstract: A bayonet includes: a blade having a sharpened portion and a tang integral with the sharpened portion; a handle that encloses the tang of the blade and has a first end proximate to the sharpened portion of the blade and a second end proximate to an end of the tang of the blade; a guard between the sharpened portion of the blade and the first end of the handle; a clip that is affixed to the second end of the handle and is further affixed to the end of the tang of the blade; and a positioning access point on the handle proximate to the second end of the handle.

Abstract: The present invention presents a pliers-like hand tool with special shaped cutting edges and grooved guides in the jaws of the tool so that when used to cut off the unwanted ends of cable ties the cable tie can be guided into the tool and positioned for cuffing the end of the cable tie leaving a smooth rounded end on the cable tie.

Abstract: This creation is to provide a kind of anvil structure improvement for garden clippers. Such anvil is installed at the end of garden clippers' first handle, allowing the moving blade at the end of the second handle to oscillate into contact against the inner anvil surface of that anvil. The inner side of that anvil is a flat surface, the tip of which is in a position of jutting out from the tip of the moving blade. The anvil features a first cutting edge at the anvil's outer side, and a second cutting edge is further installed at the tip of the anvil. The provision of such first, second cutting edge adds extra functions of cutting, digging and drilling to the garden clippers as their primary applications.

Abstract: A composite pliers has crossed levers, each including a non-metallic body with an exposed metal cutter blade. The pliers includes strengthening and/or retaining structure around a pivot joint which does not extend into handle portions of the levers. This structure strengthens the pivot joint and can help confine the pliers parts in the event of failure. In one embodiment, each lever has a pivot joint strengthening structure insert molded therein, the structure extending into a jaw portion of each lever and protruding from the non-metallic body to form a workpiece engagement surface, such as a cutting blade. In one form, the jaws have more than one row of teeth with adjacent rows offset from each other. When the pliers is assembled from two identical lever members, each row of teeth on one lever will face the offset row of teeth on the other lever so that the peaks of the teeth on one lever fall within the grooves between the teeth on the opposing row.

Abstract: A pair of shears comprises two pivotally-fastened handles, two blades pivoted to the handles, and a connection device pivoted with the two blades. The two handles are provided with a cutting edge. As the two handles are moved toward each other, the cutting edges and the blades are capable of bringing about independently a scissors action to execute the cutting of an object held therebetween.

Abstract: A bayonet system includes a bayonet and a scabbard in which the bayonet is received for storage. The bayonet is formed with an integral blade-and-tang unit. A plastic handle is molded over the tang, with a portion of the tang protruding from a butt end of the handle. A latch plate is attached to the butt end of the handle assembly by a radial rivet to the protruding portion of the tang. The latch plate includes a pair of retainer arms fixed to the latch plate with pins that can be driven out to effect removal of the release arms. The scabbard has a housing with an integral load assembly at its upper end, integral recessed tie-down loops adjacent to its lower end, and an integral hand guard extending from one side at a position intermediate the upper end and the lower end.

Abstract: A pair of shears has a fixed blade, a fixed handle connecting the fixed blade, a driving blade, and a driving handle connecting the driving blade, a spring between two handles, a pin on the crisscross portion between two blades, and a switch button on the outer side of the fixed handle. The first threaded hole and the first positioning post are formed on the front of the fixed blade. The second threaded hole and the second positioning post are formed on the inner side of the fixed handle. A cutting device such as a saw blade and a scikle is disposed in front of the fixed blade. A through hole and a positioning hole are formed on the rear of the cutting device. The first positioning post inserts in the positioning hole. A screw passes through the through hole and the first threaded hole to fasten the cutting device.

Abstract: A composite, non-electrically conductive, non-sparking, non-magnetic and lightweight cutter/plier hand tool has two pivotally interconnected lever members, each of unitary, one-piece construction and formed by compression molding of multiple plies of a discontinuous random glass fiber-reinforced plastic sheet molding compound. Fixed to the jaw of each lever member is a ceramic insert made of transformation toughened zirconia, formed by dry compression and then sintering of a powdered form of the ceramic material. Each insert has a serrated gripping portion and a cutting portion, with cutting surfaces on the opposed inserts operating in shearing relationship. Three versions of the inserts are disclosed.

Abstract: A locking pliers and wire cutter combination tool having a handle with mutually spaced parallel flanges with edges extending across a cutting zone. A wire cutting notch is formed in the edge of one flange and the other is provided with a ramp aligned with the base of the notch. A fixed jaw is attached between the flanges and a movable jaw is pivotally connected opposite the fixed jaw. The movable jaw includes a cutting blade arranged to traverse the cutting zone and a spring urges the movable jaw into an open position. An operating lever and connecting link are connected in such a manner as to actuate the movable jaw. The single notch reliably retains the wire within the cutting zone while insuring that shearing occurs at only one location.

Abstract: A bayonet and scabbard are capable of being pivotally connected to constitute a wire or metal tape cutting implement having a recess shaped to capture the wire or tape before such cutting begins. The bayonet blade has a tang extending into the bayonet handle which is of a yield strength greater than that of the handle but less than that of the bayonet blade. A finger guard is provided with notches adjacent the blade for engaging an edge of the cap of a receptacle for removing the same.

Abstract: A tool for preparing multi-conductor electrical cable in a configuration for termination to and installation in a self-contained wiring device which locates the electrical cable in an anvil and a cutter assembly pierces the outer sheath of the cable and subsequently spreads the conductors of the cable as the cutter is advanced into the cable. The tool also provides flanges adapted for urging the sliced and spread apart conductors in the body of a self-contained wiring device to terminate the conductors to the device and permit closure of the device by a back cover.

Abstract: A crimping and cutting tool useable for cutting wire and connection of a ferrule tip type electrical connector to an electrically conductive wire. The tool includes first and second lever members pivotally connected with a pivot pin. Each lever member has a head with a cutting jaw and a crimping jaw and a handle. The crimping jaws have alternative teeth and recesses in opposition to one another. The crimping jaws are movable toward one another to crimping position by applying hand force on the levers wherein each of the teeth of one of the crimping jaws fills a recess of the opposite jaw. The recesses have differing sizes such that differing sizes of electrical connectors or ferrules can be accommodated in the recesses and crimped therein. Wire cutting jaws have convex curved cutting edges located above the pivot pin.

Abstract: A seam pulling tool for use in quality control of can manufacture. A pair of pliers have novel upper and lower jaws. The lower jaw has a trapezoidal central flat portion, wider at the rear than at the front, and a vertical side portions on each side of the flat portion with a sharp cutting edge at the top sloping upwardly and rearwardly relatively to the flat portion. The upper jaw has a flat surface the same size as the central flat portion and perpendicular sides providing a sharp cutting edge at each side.

Abstract: A compound tool for installation of a cable tie band. The elongated tool has a transversely disposed open-ended, rectangular slot that broadly approximates the tie band in cross-section and through which the free end of a loosely assembled tie band is threaded, firmly tensioned and finger clamped on the tool handle, the tool bottom being fulcrumed on the band at the tie head. The tool is then rotated to tighten the band and secure the bundle. A cutter blade, incorporated in the tool structure, is so pivotally mounted and configured that in the shearing of the excess of tie band, the blade initiates shearing at the outside edge of the band-slot assembly and continuously during shearing exerts only a clamping force which influences the tie band into the slot.

Abstract: This invention relates to a pair of double acting circlip pliers which consists of two jaw members which are pivotally connected intermediate their ends so that the free ends of the jaw members define first and second pairs of jaws on opposite sides of the pivot. The pliers further includes a pair of handle members which are freely rotatable about the pivot and adapted by means of suitably positioned formations to engage the first pair of jaws to operate the second pair when the handles are rotated towards each other in one direction and to engage the second pair to operate the first when the handles are rotated towards each other in the opposite direction.

Abstract: The integrated universal tool is a novel combination tool which provides these functions: A locking knife blade, a locking saw blade, a locking Phillips bladed screwdriver, a locking small flat bladed screw driver, a locking large flat bladed screwdriver, a crescent wrench, graduated calipers for measuring inside and outside dimensions, left and right-handed shears, a nibbler, a wire stripper, and an electrical terminal crimping tool. This combination of tools is allowed by the use of the integrated universal. The universal is a universal joint located at the end opposite the crescent wrench. The blades of the tool are fastened to this universal joint and can be rotated into the extended or retracted positions about its two axes. This allows three extended blade positions and one closed position. The integration is the integrating slide.

Abstract: The non-metallic sheath of an electrical cable is stripped by a tool having a piercing barb positioned within a cable capturing recess, the barb being used to slit the sheath which is then peeled back and snipped off by a shear embodied in the tool.